Sunset of Europe. Volume 2: World-historical prospects. Spengler O.

This is the main essay of the German philosopher and historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) appeared in 1918-1922. In Russian, for a long time was not reprinted, since it was considered written under the influence of purely reactionary ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. The author, in the framework of his concept of a certain life cycle of any culture, spoke of the inevitable, in his opinion, dehumanization of European culture, about the growing dominance of technicalism, “degenerating it into civilization” with the replacement of creativity and development of infertility and ossification. For a wide range of readers.